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Christina Ricci polishes her dark side.

Growing up in New Jersey, Janine di Giovanni had to get out. So she went to Chechnya and the Balkans.

In artist Sloane Tanen’s little worlds, human life—from blind dates to yoga to bad wax jobs—is expertly acted out by chickens.

We all have that friend -- the one who'll eat, sleep, or read anything New York. Just in time for Christmas, five new titles for that obsessive urbanite's stocking.

In A Changed Man, Francine Prose unloads on do-gooder hypocrisy and a media with blinders on.

Madonna joins the ranks of pop-music artists turned shining children’s-literature stars.

Timely new books about the old New Economy.

A three point plan.

Former royal butler Paul Burrell on Princess Diana, Tom Hanks, name-dropping—and whether you get better service in New York or London.